I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.

I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.